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TV comes to South Africa:
A Iit, byut not for everybody

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (A') - Tele-
vision finally came to South Africa Monday
night, bringing comedy by Bob Newhart and a
local pair named Hal Orlandini and Rod Hud-
son, Chopin played by Artur Rubenstein and
inaugural remarks by Prime Minister John
Vorster.
Orlandini and Hudson were the critics' favor-
ites.
"If this is the way SABC-TV means to carry
on, they are going the right way about it," said
the Rand Daily Mail.
The same paper said the Newhart show, im-
ported from the United States, "hit us too sud-
denly . . . Mr. Newhart's humor is something
which takes getting used to."
Vors' -r was dour and unsmiling as he inaug-
urated the service.
"I must confess that as a person I am not
over-enthusiastic about television," he said.
"But I am pleasantly surprised so far with the
quality of test transmissions. I think that all
involved have done exceedingly well."
With 26-inch color TV sets selling for $1,000
and 250,000 sets sold in the past six months, the
opening-night audience was estimated at a
million, almost all of them white.

Even if South Africa's 18 million impoverish-
ed blacks could afford sets, they have almost
no electricity in the segregated townships and
rural reserves in which they live.
The Calvinists of the ruling National party
opposed television for two decades as a cor-
rupter of morals and because they feared it
would help break down the racial barriers
erected by their apartheid policy. They finally
gave in to public pressure four years ago and
authorized the South African Broadcasting Corp.
to go visual.
Now the government's opponents fear the
new medium will be a vehicle for government
propaganda. But the first 20-minute news pro-
gram reported all major international and local
events, including the war in Angola, factually
and objectively.

BEST

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LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
TODAY AT 2:00-5:00-8:00
OPEN AT 1 :45
WEDS.: ALL SEATS $1.00
Till 5:00
PICTURE
DIRECTOR-Robert Altman
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-Lily Tomlin
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TEN BY JOAN TEWKESBURY " PRODUCED AND
RANGED AND SUPERVISED BY RICHARD BASKIN

"South Africa has joined the 20th
said one young man watching the
grams in a downtown store.

century,"
first pro-

The service is bilingual, with half of the five
hours daily in English and the other half in
Afrikaans, the two languages of the nation's 4
million whites. Broadcasting officials say they
hope to open a second channel for the black
majority by 1980.

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE - ABC ENTER
PRODUCTION OF A ROBERT ALTMANF
BARBARA BAXLEY NED BEATTY- KARE
KEITH CARRADINE - GERALDINE CHAPLIN
GARFIELD - HENRY GIBSON - SCOTT GLENN
HAYWARD - MICHAEL MURPHY -'ALLAN NI
REMSEN - LILY TOMLIN GWEN WELLES - K
STARGER AND JERRY WEINTRAUB - WRIT
DIRECTED BY ROBERT ALTMAN- MUSIC ARf
IN COLOR - PANAVISInV

Rod
RodStewart: A funny voice
and n aathetic attitude
By BRUCE MEYER touring rock 'n' roll stars. And "Yeah. I don't know what
United Press International speaking of stars (clever tran- we're going to do now, 'cause I
sition there), rock has been re- don't particularly want to make
Rod Stewart: archetypal rock solving itself lately into a star- any more records with the band.
star, system based around lead sing-|I really enjoy making my own
He has finished going through ers-most of them singers with albums, because it's so easv,
the motions of a U.S. tour with unusual, characteristic voices it's good fun. It was never fun
the Faces. He is the Star, bored like yours . . . making albums with the Faces.
with interviews and just about "Yeah. I've spent a lot of time They're definitely one of the
everything else. inYLA. late and a a ret best rock 'n' roll bands to tour1
He has a new album, Atlantic I've listenedytoaa lot of radio with. But it shouldn't take a
Crossing (BS-2875), which has a and so much of it is usually year to record 40 minutes of
good side labeled "slow side" down to singers. If the singer music."
and a, mediocre sideblabeled has got a distinct style, that's happens to the rest
"fast side." It was ably pro-, what wins it in the end. Many o wa ajest the band?
duced by Tom Dowd, who has good songs have got lost by "I really don't care about it{
done everyone from the Modern ordinary singers. I suppose it too much Everybody d >.s ask
Jazz Quartet to Otis Redding. does help to have a funny- me, especially now as I've made
It's the first album Stewart sounding voice." an album on me own away from
has recorded- out of England--
in this ecase, mostly in Muscle Your solo albums have always the band, plus the fact of me
Shoals, Ala., backed by a va- done better than the Faces' . . . not living in Britain and Wo->dy
riety of top Memphis studio "Oh, yeah. Ridiculously so. touring with the Stones. Thnt's
musicians. The band hasn't really sold that what everybody's been asking
What, asks an interviewer, do many records, if the truth was and I've given the same reAlyv-
you think about the album? known, compared to what 1've I don't care," says the Star.
"I think it's good-I like the sold. But they were bad albums
veneral disease song-'Three -three of them, at least-and I E I don't care about anything
Time Loser.' I think it's the said it when they were released. too much, you know."
best song on the album," an-' We had one good album-A --- - - -
swers the Star. "It's just about Nod's As Good As A Wink." BIRD WALK
time that someone told about Does this suggest a :imited
VD. So I took it upon my own future for the Faces-epecially NEW YORK (AP) - Ilikers
slim shoulders to do so." in view of guitarist Ron Wood's can be bird watchers, too. Ac-
Well, says the interviewer, recent dalliance with the Rolling cording to "The Magnificent
Continent," just published by
VD is of particular concern to Stones.
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RISING COSTS, DELAYS
ON TRANS-ALASKA
PIPELINE
NEW YORK (AP) - Prob-
lems of logistics, weather,
equipment and manpower are
raising the costs and delaying
construction o the trans-Alaska
pipeline, contractors have told
Engineering News-Record.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.,
Anchorage, which is in charge
of the project, denies that costs
have risen sharply and that de-
lays are significant.
While Alyeska estimates the
porject will cost $5.9 billion,
 some contractors seethe cost
running as high as $10 billion,
reports the magazine.
Work was begun in March on
the 798-mile pipeline linking
Prudhoe Bay in the north with
the port o Valdez in the south.
Target date for completion is
mid-1977.

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Rock star Alice Cooper gyrates during a recent engagement at
Harrad's casino in Stateline, Nevada. Cooper's enormously
successful run marked the first appearance of a major rock
personality at a Nevada gambling emporium.


Michlgan Daily
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Hand McNally, Me 2,000-male
hiking tract called the Apala-
chian Trail is also the route for
one of our continent's major
I avian flyways.
The new book, which depicts!
and describes 100 of America's
most scenic areas, reports that
air currents, rising from the,
Appalachian Mountains below,
allow a wide variety of hawks
and other birds traveling the
flyway to migrate vast dis-
tances with little expenditure ofI
their own energy.j

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The silt carried by the Mis-
sissippi River to the Gulf of'
Mexico moves the river's delta
340 feet farther into the gulf
each year.

The state of Iowa
that is considered the
America and the state
for one-tenth of the
food supply.

has soil
finest in
accounts!
nation's


Arts Briefs:
After viewing The Black Bird Bird's femme fatale is about as
the title of -another and much fatale as an after-dinner mint.
better film comes to mind: Is Segal can be blamed for more
Nothing Sacred? than his performance because
The Black Bird is a continua- he doubled as executive pro-I
tion of John Huston's fabulous ducer and fared just as poorly.
detective film The Maltese Fal- Aside from the performances
con. Falcon certainly did not being horrible and every joke
need a sequel. Black Bird lacks and gag falling on their re-'
all the greatness of its predeces- spective faces, a shark swallows,
sor, and reaches new heights in the falcon to give the film an
stupidity. air of Jaws.
George Segal plays Sam Spade The advertisement for The
Jr. (Bogart was Sr.) and gives Black Bird states that it is a
a performance that is worse "falcon funny movie." A more
than his banal dialogue. Sydney appropriate statement would beI
Greenstreet's role is played by a that it is a falcon lousy film.
midget in a Nazi uniform. And -Joshua Becker

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Experience fifties nostalgia - see this film
starring Ronnie Howard and Richard Dreyfuss.
Aud. A, ANGELL HALL -7 & 9 p.m.
ONLY $1.25
Pick up one of our January schedules at the showing

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ROBIN HOOD R STRICTED4
This Classic versin of the Robin Hood Tale features Flynn
in his best screen role, Olivia De Havilland as Marion,
Claude Rains as Prince John and Basil Rathbone as an Evil
Knight. From castles to Sherwood Forest, Director Michael
Curtiz weaves a great story with fine acting and colorful NOW SHOWING
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j jANOPEN AT 12:45
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